it's wealthy americans who foot the bill president obama signs the stop gap law to raise their taxes as part of the deal to avoid plunging off the fiscal cliff. that it states military marketing machine has its eyes on asia pacific cement its influence and make billions of dollars. while the church of england needs a face lift as its founding creasing out of touch by britain's population with calls to strip its centuries old powers.

around the world and around the clock this is. president obama is to sign the lower increasing taxes on wealthy americans the deal was passed by congress after months of political bickering to avoid the fiscal cliff and the threat of a destructive recession what it was rushed through on tuesday night before the financial markets reopened after the new year holiday less than twenty four hours after getting senate approval the move prevents deep spending cuts and middle class tax hikes which technically took effect at midnight on johnny the first the compromising creases taxes on house. hundred fifty thousand dollars and the laser spending cuts for two months some economists see it as being part of well a little help to revive america. they really leave out two really big question that they will have to attack caught in the. one or two month's time the number one

priority will be did get seelig. the us gov the government already unleashed desailly of sixteen point three trillion us fellows and they are using the. tricks to get over to govern us government over for two months but in february they have nowhere to go they have to go back to the congress a request a hike into debt ceiling and the other one is the long term solution would be budget deficit fiscal deficit is running one trillion dollars a year. tax increases spending because the problem is only reduce the deficit by several like two hundred billion dollars it's way short the government the us government have to cut the deficit to zero or actually to

a surplus in order to pay off the huge debt. in one place america's lightly to rake in a few more dollars and next year's arms sales of an answer is most likely to be an unseen weapons in the asia pacific we have analysis on that to come later in the program. the new country taking charge of europe's revolving presidency is promising to secure economic stability but countries ireland one of the bailed out nations which succumbed early on to its own debt crisis financial analyst robert oulds told me it may prove too big a task for dublin. one of the key challenges facing many countries in europe is of course the economic difficulties. is of course rigidly sticking to the austerity drive which the european union wants which it mandating arlan to do it's effectively running its budget policies in many different areas amount of money that it can be can spend to deal with the deficit but of course arlen's medicine

that they're taking and partly suffering from but they're getting on with it isn't really vied for the rest of europe so if they're going to be driving forward the agenda in the european union for the next six months that's not the. economic problems let me ask you this i mean this coming year twenty thirteen the e.u. has come up with something called the european year of citizens to be highlight the rights people have because they're in the e.u. what do you make of that one of the key people should have is a via to elect their own governments and for that to actually make a real difference but of course with the european union power has become too centralized amongst the institutions in brussels and that just takes away power from ordinary citizens so the european union can tell us why it's that we have but of course we don't actually have the vite to make a real difference to the elections because far too many decisions now are made at the supranational level made decisions being made in brussels away from the

citizens whether they be the citizens of violent or britain or spain or greece for that matter ok but what you are going to be restored but were there any success stories in twenty twelve must have been something i mean after all the countries predicted to have collapsed by now are still surviving. well course unemployment continues to go up that for the states within the euro zone that very alarming and their economic problems will not be resolved until of course it recognize the you know the single currency is the bond covenant see for these countries really we need to have a back of powers away from brussels to all the different member states and of course britain should of course have its own referendum on our membership as well and have our own say but it needs to be recognised that the european union is of course failing economically so it still is still there it still exists but the price of people are paying is of course no economic growth and of course massively high unemployment which is now reaching alarming proportions for many different

eurozone states. the church of england has defined the u.k. and its laws for centuries but its privileges now appear to far outweigh its place among british society in the past decade the number of people who consider themselves christian has dropped by more than four million. reports on whether it's time for today's religious mix to get more recognition. one of the most religiously diverse nations in the world with one official state religion to some it's a paradox i think any institute any faith institution like the church of england is going to have some potential threats on the horizon and those threats on the horizon are basically around its relevance to communities in general other faiths are significant and growing in their not only population but voice in a social and political level so it's really important to have a plurality of opinion rather than just focus on one institution as being

reflective of the nation yet the national church has twenty six on the elected members in the house of lords the upper house of britain's parliament and it enjoys financial privileges courtesy of the u.k. taxpayer by the church's own admission the number of people coming through the doors of this and every other church in england has harvard over the past forty years the very same report even warns that in the longer term the established religion faces fading away to virtual envelopment twenty anglican churches just like this one being closed down for worship each year entrepreneurial property developers a snapping them up and converting them to luxury housing or even light clubs while the number of church goers in the u.k. continues to fall some one hundred thousand britons have converted to islam over the past decade three quarters of those white women as you know broaden my

knowledge about islam and compared with christianity i must tell you i followed more logical you know it just resonates with me i like what the prince of wales but he wants to be if ever he becomes king he wants to be the leader of faith you know of all faiths but i think it's a wonderful statement because certainly our society here in britain is very multi-core. very multi-faith so everybody should be included while other faiths enjoy popularity the church of england says recent rejection of women bishops and disapproval of gay marriage has reignited the age old debate on the separation of church and state people feel alienated if they're not part of that church and so few people are because only two percent go to church on a normal sunday so that's why we must i think make sure the church is disestablished in and the twenty six bishops that vote in the house of lords the

only country in the world to have a parliament where they have the right to do that should be extinguished britain now has one of the lowest rates of church attendance in europe there is a rule. in terms of religious opinions there is and that will grow and that may actually become wider as time goes on and so i guess what we have today is is the church effectively being relevant to certain parts of this country despite centuries of tradition some question what will be left of the church of england in fifty years time now the city sticks are very clear very clear almost disappeared with something i think the twenty fifty figures are one hundred thousand people in the pews on an average sunday out of a population of sixteen million that's miniscule but the privileges and political

influence afforded to it off far from trivial and that's what's fueling the calls of those who say that it's fairer to separate the church from the state party boy art see london. gaza's struggling farmers are turning to rooftop all their land is on the line of fire with israel saying they're going to get creative with their harvest as we report later. on california this sudden decades after the summer of love doctors warn of the generational risk from deadly but time to see. choose your language. of choice because we know in federal custody until someone. chooses to use the consents to. choose the opinions that immigrate to.

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welcome back here with our. top u.s. arms makers are forecasting a significant rise in sales for the coming off a pretty solid twenty twelve washington has been shifting its sights towards asia into its allies north korea and china independent journalist james corbett says the u.s. is creating a pretext to make billions for mom sales which could backfire through geopolitical tensions what we can see is really just a return to a very old imperial strategy of building up boogeyman in order to then create the sales to to combat those bogeyman so it's a very old strategy it was identified by name even by president eisenhower in his farewell address in one thousand nine hundred sixty when he talked about the military industrial complex and we here we are half a century later with the exact same strategy at play and before it was the communists then there was the terrorist threat and now there's china and that threat so i think it creates a situation where the economics may be what's driving this in the pivot towards

asia pacific but that in turn creates geopolitical realities so that for example china now sees all of these arms sales going to korea and taiwan and japan and some of the u.s. allies in the region and they respond with a military armaments of their own so it's a kind of self-perpetuating. prophecy that fulfils itself by the economics of the situations asian has its eye on what's happening with taiwan and the effort to retrofit the f. sixteen fleet of taiwan but also the japanese x. ray to expand radar for example that just recently has is being expanded and worked on i think has to be seen as a threat by china as well so i think definitely we're going to see an increase in tensions and that will probably create more situations like we saw in the past year with the sink island dispute between japan and china. of asia pacific is likely to take quite a lot of the limelight in twenty thirty and later on crosstalk people avails

experts explain why. the prime problem that the united states sees with china is that its economy is too strong and that it's building up its military so these are two things that the united states prides itself on my giant military and a big economy right what the weather what a big economy in china reflects is number one a lot of hundreds of thousands of people being lifted out of poverty in inch inside china but also means help for the united states because trade is obviously mutually beneficial and so trade in international borders being a little more open to trade this is a good thing for the united states and washington wants to paint it as a bad thing they're playing a very sort of great game geo politicking in asia and because china is having success they're moving to try and contain china so that means backing a lot of unscrupulous people in asia pacific surging military forces there naval

forces there this is all very bad it's an interesting way of the united states turning something positive into something very terrible and it makes it easy for people to go china is our next greatest enemy. and that latest edition of crosstalk will be on the air at around fifteen twenty five g.m.t. . israel easing restrictions to that building materials into gaza the blockade still severely affects those who live there even farmers have had to leave their land in the buffer zones to grow food on rooftops instead. reports the recent assault on gaza leave some of fearing they may not see their next harvest. there's not a lot of greenery in gaza at least not in the places you'd expect to find it like abu hafs arms farm which since the israel gaza war four years ago has laid barren and deserted and emerged yet again i had a very nice plantation

a lot of visitors came to see it also students from the farming school used to come and study at my place. they go now but what gets from israel raining down on one of the most densely populated spots on earth meant i will have needed to find another place where he could grow his crops and so he looked towards his own home and upwards that. i needed no alternative so i made this plantation on the roof and started working again. creates a lot of things as time and energy i can make two thousand submarines from these seventy meters on the roof. it's an idea that's taken root in farms along the gaza israel border where much of the agriculture has been repeatedly destroyed by the israeli army many farmers are unable to access the land because of the buffer zone that's one of at least two of gaza's farmland.

today there is no space to have a farm in gaza it is very crowded everybody is building new houses. now used to be a plantation for oranges and lemons and if you look at it now you just see buildings. fall out of five people in gaza are dependent on food aid homegrown food projects like rooftop gardens can help combat malnutrition and severe poverty by allowing farmers to sell their produce marry anyone can do it i work with my husband and my daughters till midnight is that half a lot of farming should be on the ground but we heard that we can plant in volcanic rock on our roots so i tried it. farmers grow wheat barley and a variety of fruits and nuts on these rooftops they also raise. and chickens showing how a little ingenuity can go a long way ask anyone in israel of gaza whether they think the situation is stable and it's only a matter of time before the next gaza showdown they might be

a ceasefire in place between the two sides but no one believes it will hold least of all the gaza farm is always the first in the line of fire. on the israel gaza border. and over the west bank thousands of palestinians have been wounded after they grounded on israeli troops were disguised as a vegetable seto's in a botched mission to capture suspected militants get the details on our website. also has the vatican lost its faith in trusting its star. cause to try moves around papal premises in the wake of a string of embarrassing leaks. divine

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something. lies beneath. the thousands of need to use of ice and for. the love. that is a for many. but dangerous even to those who keep it at a distance. more of the world's news now this hour activists report that at least thirty people have been killed and many others injured in an airstrike which hit a gas station the damascus suburbs earlier in the day syrian rebels attacked

a military airport in the country's west and a major electrical messages. firing machine guns and mortars helicopters the violence is despite a stark warning from the top international he sent word to syria a country faces held without talks. a motorcycle bomb has gone off near a crowded parking pakistan's southern city of karachi killing at least four people and wounding dozens of others police say the explosion occurred when a political rally of the city's dominant party passed by no one has yet admitted to carrying out the attack. hundreds of women protesters in india have marched in silence in the capital to mourn the twenty three year old woman victim of a brutal gang rape on a mass later died of her injuries igniting a fierce public response and growing calls for her attackers to be executed six men will be formally charged on thursday but one of the suspects can't be jailed for

murder if convicted because he's under eighteen. venezuelan president hugo chavez is in a state of consciousness after on the going and other cancer operation that's according to the vice president nicolas maduro stressed the leader's condition remains delicate and rejected earlier rumors that chavez was in a coma in hospital in cuba the president's third term inauguration is sheffield for the tenth of january. but it seems there is a price to pay for free love of the wrong american health officials warn there's a silent epidemic stalking the baby boomers of the sixty's but in the culture never reports on the call in california to get checked for deadly hepatitis c. . california one the center of the hippie revolution amounting to heart of music rock sound sexual freedom we did drugs that we didn't think about there was no process

because everybody was doing it dean made chill is a baby boomer born during the pos world war two years nineteen forty six and nine hundred sixty five his generation now is paying for that lifestyle a life of things drugs and rock'n'roll all fueled by flower power and the summer of love they say few remember the sixty's you were entry there the baby boomers out of the sexual revolution may have lost some of their memories cindy had the mists of time but there is one legacy of their past which is anything but harmless the centers for disease control has already named him patatas c s n and recognized health crisis according to their grannies ation current he won in thirty baby boomers are in fact it with the virus the silent killer it can lie dormant for decades that's what happened to dean mitchell's friend who died just two months after being diagnosed with the disease they're paying for the car consequences

because there are now so. they have to get medication. it's a disease that i understand can kill you but worst of all it's not just baby boomers who are a triscuit many could have a knowingly contract with the virus through blood transfusions and screening was all improved during the aids crisis in the ninety's californian's they area has been the hardest hit with more people dying here than anywhere else in the country and is also a very costly problem for the bankrupt state costing billions of dollars the number of people. who are. there are. two or. more widespread than h i.v. happy tide kills around twelve thousand people in the u.s. after a year and with the baby boomers in the highest risk group the center for disease

control has called for mass screening they say they could identify almost a million people now living with the disease and save many more lives but the question remains if the present generation will listen my question archie reporting from los angeles california. so many of us have gazed into the sky to wonder what it would be like to spend time in the stars well some have space entrepreneur eric anderson about private money spent on holiday in the heavens is helping science. based tourism honestly is not a great word for what these people do when they participate as private citizens going to the space station every single one of them who's flown with space adventures to the space station has had an in-depth scientific program whether it was material science or biological experiments or whatever it was they have

participated they have paid their own way of course they have used themselves as part of the scientific community that many of them have gone to space with less than perfect health and have been great examples of how for example laser surgery on your eyes is affected by space flight they all want to participate in this they are participating and the fact of the matter is quite honestly when private citizens go to the space station a lot more people hear about the space station than otherwise it's just one of those things that they captures the public's attention part of nasa is mission is to encourage to the maximum extent possible the commercial use of space and in fact showing that there is a market showing that there are people willing to do this and showing that you don't have to be a career military fighter pilot the right stuff kind of person that plays a huge role and i think that's exactly the sort of thing that ends up helping the space agencies of the world as well.

well the full conversation with the space on every count as soon as here it's eighteen forty five g.m.t. before then they will look at those who prepared for the cosmic calamity that never was the mayan apocalypse. i think that. in this remote siberian village people still sing the songs which russians sang in the middle ages and they cherish things practiced by the will set up church before the seventeenth century the old believers here is sign the area our conservative community. the god may believe need there yet i

feel right. now i'm glad that. i think. people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and teach them how to dance in the local star. the. seventeen year old is from the same village she now studies in the city and dances at a club. she puts on her costume and the traditional amber necklace only when she comes to visit her grandmother. ok i didn't ask on time pronouncing this because i want to keep up to date her this morning world but still i would like to have camp my i am very ground home exercise lawyer very attachment to the church brought not just an sisters to this remote glen east deflate by call more than two

hundred fifty years ago they were exiled in pesah q-tip for not agreeing to the orthodox who forms introduced in russia in the sixteen hundreds killed believers still baal and cross themselves with two fingers not with three as they do in modern orthodox churches in russia and never knew when praying was more and more young people leaving for big cities the theories the old believers culture could be imperiled. plans to continue her studies abroad to grandmother says wherever she goes as long as the jews are fresh in her memory so is the culture ok.